What the Lady of House Corbray of Heart’s Home would wear, Valentino
What Lo Bu, known as the Boy Too Bold By Half, would have worn, image from the Curse of the Golden Flower
When he ascended to the throne of Yi Ti, the nomadic Jogos Nhai had become bolder and more rapacious, causing the young emperor to seek to exterminate them. He assembled a host said to be three hundred thousand strong and swept the plains with it, leaving a burning wasteland behind, unswayed by tributes, hostages, oaths of fealty or offerings of peace.
When the Jogos Nhai resorted to their traditional tactic of melting away before an army, Lo Bu divided his host into thirteen smaller and sent them to hunt down the nomads. History tells one million of Jogos Nhai perished at their hands. Thus, the rival clans of zorse-riders united and raised up a jhattar, Zhea. Though Lo Bu was courageous and skilled at arms like no other, he was not as cunning as Zhea, who in two years isolated and destroyed each of Lo Bu's armies one by one, slaying scouts and foragers, starving them, denying them water, or leading them into wastelands and traps. Finally her riders fell upon Lo Bu's own army and slaughtered it, the young emperor included, ending the line of the Scarlet Emperors. When Lo Bu's severed head was presented to her, Zhea commanded that the flesh be stripped from the bone and the skull dippsed in gold and made into a drinking cup. Since that day, every jhattar has drunk fermented zorse milk from the gilded skull of Lo Bu, who is remembered as the Boy Too Bold By Half.
What Baelor the Blessed would have worn, Amato by Furne One
Baelor I Targaryen was the ninth Targaryen king to reign on the Iron Throne. Known for his piety, Baelor was a septon as well as a king. None of the Targaryen kings are as beloved by the smallfolk as Baelor. Some remember him as a great and holy man and praise him for his contributions to the Faith of the Seven, for forging a peace with Dorne, his mercy and his many acts of charity. Others are less impressed by him, believing him to be an overly zealous weak fool.
Upon the death of his brother, King Daeron I Targaryen, in Dorne, Baelor was crowned king and ascended the Iron Throne when he was seventeen. Baelor was married to his younger sister, Princess Daena Targaryen,however he refused to consummate their marriage, causing his sister, who usually dressed all in black, to change her clothes to only whites in an attempt to shame him, as she had sworn to wear nothing else until the was properly bedded. The plan did not work, as Baelor liked to see his sister all in white, feeling it made her look more innocent. He later had the marriage dissolved, and chose to lock his three sisters away in a comfortable prison in the red keep later called the maidenvault so he could preserve the innocence of his sisters from the wickedness of the world, and from the lusts of men. This action was protested by many in the court. Baelor next decreed prostitution to be outlawed in King's Landing, putting more than a thousand whores and and their children out of the city. This was heavily protested, but Baelor refused to listen and closed his eyes to the unrest that followed. He busied himself with building a new sept which would later be named after him.
Towards the end of his reign, Baelor would fast to the point of fainting to tame the lusts that shamed him. When his sister and former wife, Daena, gave birth to a bastard named Daemon Waters, she refused to give up the father. Baelor fasted for forty days and nights, refusing to take anything but water and some bread. On the forty-first day of his fast the king collapsed, and neither the Grand Maester or the High Septon could save him. History says Baelor starved himself to death by the prolonged fasting to cleanse himself of lust, but some believe he was poisoned by his Hand and uncle, Viserys. Some claim Viserys did so to gain the throne, but others claim Viserys had done so for the good of the realm, as Baelor had come to believe that the Seven wanted him to convert all the non-believers in the entire realm. Had Baelor been able to put these believes into action, war with the old gods-following north and the Drowned God-worshiping Iron Islands would have resulted.
What a warrior of the Patrimony of Hyrkoon would wear, Nicholas K
The Patrimony is made up of tree cities, which are known for its warrior maids. It is said that these cities are defended by women out of the belief that only those who give birth are permitted to take life at will.
These cities are ruled by the Great Fathers. Their daughters learn to ride and climb before they learn to walk and are trained in the arts of bow, spear, knife, and sling from the earliest age. Meanwhile, ninety nine of every hundred boys, the sons of the Great Fathers, are gelded when they reach the age of manhood and live out their lives as eunuchs, serving their cities as scribes, priests, scholars, servants, cooks, farmers, and craftsmen. Only the most promising males, the largest, strongest, and most comely, are permitted to mature, breed, and become Great Fathers in their turn. Over the centuries the city has faced countless assaults from the Jogos Nhai, a result of an ancient war between the Patrimony of Hyrkoon and the zorse-riders of the plains, which saw thousands of Hyrkoon carried off into slavery and many more Jogos Nhai sacrificed to the gods of Hyrkoon.